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PressTVChina's alleged theft of personal information of millions of American employees is embarrassing while Washington's response to the hacking indicates "double standard hypocrisy" in US foreign policy, a geopolitical commentator in Missouri says. "First of all, it's an embarrassment for the United States that the Chinese were able to penetrate our cyber network to that extent," said Dean Henderson, an author and columnist at Veterans Today. "But the more interesting thing is the response of the United States to the Chinese security hacks" for refusing to impose sanctions on China while imposing several rounds of embargoes on Russia, Henderson told Press TV on Saturday.This shows China's economic power and at the same time the "double standard hypocrisy in US foreign policy," he added.Henderson also said a New York Times report published Friday revealing the Obama administration has determined that it must retaliate against China for its recent cyber attacks is not surprising. The report said the White House is still struggling to decide how it can retaliate against the Chinese government without prompting an escalating cyber war.
The decision to retaliate came after the Obama administration concluded that the hacking attack on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was so vast in scope that the usual practices for dealing with traditional espionage cases did not apply. According to officials involved in the internal debates over responses to the cyber attack, Obama's aides considered imposing economic sanctions against Beijing.But officials from the US Departments of Commerce and Treasury provided a long list of countersanctions China could take against US firms that are already struggling to deal with China. In June, US officials said hackers based in China had broken into the computer system of the OPM, accessing the personal records of millions of Americans, including current and former federal employees. The OPM said the data breach had started in March 2014 or earlier, but was noticed in April 2015. The cyber attack has been described by federal officials as among the largest breaches of government data in the history of the United States.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5ca_1438517687PressTVUS response to China hacking hypocrisy#US, #ChinaWikiLeaks Shows a Saudi Obsession With Iran (NYT)Sat, 01 Aug 2015 09:34:41 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2d8_1438435426
SetsyoufreeBy BEN HUBBARD and MAYY EL SHEIKH
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BEIRUT, Lebanon - For decades, Saudi Arabia has poured billions of its oil dollars into sympathetic Islamic organizations around the world, quietly practicing checkbook diplomacy to advance its agenda.
But a trove of thousands of Saudi documents recently released by WikiLeaks reveals in surprising detail how the government's goal in recent years was not just to spread its strict version of Sunni Islam - though that was a priority - but also to undermine its primary adversary: Shiite Iran .
The documents from Saudi Arabia 's Foreign Ministry illustrate a near obsession with Iran, with diplomats in Africa, Asia and Europe monitoring Iranian activities in minute detail and top government agencies plotting moves to limit the spread of Shiite Islam.
The scope of this global oil-funded operation helps explain the kingdom's alarm at the deal reached on Tuesday between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program. Saudi leaders worry that relief from sanctions will give Iran more money to strengthen its militant proxies. But the documents reveal a depth of competition that is far more comprehensive, with deep roots in the religious ideologies that underpin the two nations.
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A cable from the Saudi Embassy in Pakistan noting that the president of the International Islamic University of Islamabad had invited the Iranian ambassador to a cultural week on campus.The documents indicate an extensive apparatus inside the Saudi government dedicated to missionary activity that brings in officials from the Foreign, Interior and Islamic Affairs Ministries, the intelligence service and the office of the king.
Recent initiatives have included putting foreign preachers on the Saudi payroll, building mosques, schools and study centers, and undermining foreign officials and news media deemed threatening to the kingdom's agenda.
At times, the king got involved, ordering an Iranian television station off the air or granting $1 million to an Islamic association in India.
"We are talking about thousands and thousands of activist organizations and preachers who are in the Saudi sphere of influence because they are directly or indirectly funded by them," said Usama Hasan, a senior researcher in Islamic studies at the Quilliam Foundation in London. "It has been a huge factor, and the Saudi influence is undeniable."
While the documents do not show any Saudi support for militant activity, critics argue that the kingdom's campaign against Shiites - and its promotion of a strict form of Islam - have eroded pluralism in the Muslim world and added to the tensions fueling conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere.
The Saudi government has made no secret of its international religious mission, nor of its enmity toward Iran. But it has found the leaks deeply embarrassing and has told its citizens that spreading them is a crime.
It said last month that the documents were related to an electronic attack in March on the Foreign Ministry that was claimed by the Yemeni Cyber Army, a little-known group believed to be backed by Iran. WikiLeaks mentioned the attack when it released the documents.
While Saudi Arabia says some documents were fabricated, many contain correct names and phone numbers, and a number of individuals and associations named in them verified their contents when reached by reporters from The New York Times.
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Continue reading the main storyThe trove mostly covers the period from 2010 to early 2015. It documents religious outreach coordinated by the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, an interministerial body that King Salman dissolved in a government overhaul after hisascension this year.
The Foreign Ministry relayed funding requests to officials in Riyadh, the Interior Ministry and the intelligence agency sometimes vetted potential recipients, the Saudi-supported Muslim World League helped coordinate strategy, and Saudi diplomats across the globe oversaw projects. Together, these officials identified sympathetic Muslim leaders and associations abroad, distributed funds and religious literature produced in Saudi Arabia, trained preachers and gave them salaries to work in their own countries.
One example of this is Sheikh Suhaib Hasan, an Indian Islamic scholar who was educated in Saudi Arabia and worked for the kingdom for four decades in Kenya and in Britain, where he helped found the Islamic Sharia Council, according to a cable from the Saudi Embassy in London whose contents were verified by his son, Mr. Hasan of the Quilliam Foundation.
Clear in many of the diplomatic messages are Saudi fears of Iranian influence and of the spread of Shiite Islam.
The Saudi Embassy in Tehran sent daily reports on local news coverage of Saudi Arabia. One cable suggested the kingdom improve its image by starting a Persian-language television station and sending pro-Saudi preachers to tour Iran.
Other cables detailed worries that Iran sought to turn Tajikistan into "a center to export its religious revolution and to spread its ideology in the region's countries." The Saudi ambassador in Tajikistan suggested that Tajik officials could restrict Iranian support "if other sources of financial support become available, especially from the kingdom."
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A cable from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Saudi Embassy in Tajikistan says the kingdom is surveying Iranian moves in Russia.The fear of Shiite influence extended to countries where Muslims are small minorities, like China, where a Saudi delegation was charged with "suggesting practical programs that can be carried out to confront Shiite expansion in China." Anddocuments from the Philippines, where only 5 percent of the population is Muslim, included suggested steps to "restrict the Iranian presence."
In 2012, Saudi ambassadors from across Africa were told to file reports on Iranian activities in their countries. The Saudi ambassador to Uganda soon filed a detailed report on "Shiite expansion" in the mostly Christian country.
A cable from the predominantly Muslim nation of Mali warned that Iran was appealing to the local Muslims, who knew little of "the truth of the extremist, racist Shiite ideology that goes against all other Islamic schools."
Many of those seeking funds referred to the Saudi-Iranian rivalry in their appeals, the cables showed.
One proposal from the Afghan Foundation in Afghanistan said that it needed funding because such projects "do not receive support from any entities, while others, especially Shiites, get a lot of aid from several places, including Iran."
Reached in Kabul, the Afghan capital, one of the center's founders, Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil, acknowledged that the group had appealed for Saudi funding but said that it had received none.
The kingdom has at times interfered directly with Iran's outreach.
An image of King Salman outside a photo studio in Riyadh in May. Saudi Arabia says that some of the documents released by WikiLeaks were fabricated.CreditTomas Munita for The New York Times
From 2010 to 2013, it tried to force an Iranian Arabic-language satellite television station, Al Alam, off the air. These efforts included issuing royal decrees aimed at stopping the broadcast, pressuring the Riyadh-based satellite provider Arabsat to drop the channel, and using "technical means" to weaken the channel's signal so it did not reach Bahrain and eastern Saudi Arabia, where Shiites complain of discrimination by their Sunni monarchs.
A Beirut-based manager of Al Alam acknowledged that the channel had faced Saudi pressure since 2010, which had succeeded in getting two Arab satellite providers to drop the channel.
"We are broadcasting normally" via European satellites, the manager said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private company matters. "The only disruption we have is when we broadcast a show about Bahrain."
Some of the cables reported on seemingly mundane events.
The Saudi Embassy in Sri Lanka reported a meeting between the Iranian ambassador and a group of religious scholars, noting that it began at 7:30 p.m.
Elsewhere, the kingdom intervened against foreign officials it perceived as threats.
After the president of the International Islamic University of Islamabad in Pakistan, Mumtaz Ahmad, invited the Iranian ambassador to a cultural week on campus, the Saudi Embassy called Mr. Ahmad to express "its surprise," according to one cable, suggesting that he invite the wife of the Saudi ambassador instead.
A Saudi oil field. The country has poured billions of its oil dollars into Islamic organizations.CreditHasan Jamali/Associated PressMr. Ahmad refused to disinvite the Iranian ambassador, so Saudi diplomats suggested having Suliman Aba al-Khail, a Saudi academic with a position in the university's administration, convene a board meeting and "choose a president for the university who is consistent with our orientation," the cable said.
A faculty member at the university said that Mr. Ahmad, a political science professor with a doctorate from the University of Chicago, had clashed with conservative faculty members for trying to reduce Saudi influence on campus.
After Mr. Ahmad resigned as president in 2012, the Saudi ambassador worked with the president of Pakistan at the time, Asif Ali Zardari, to havea Saudi citizen named as university president, according to the faculty member.
"In the end they won," said the faculty member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to anger his employer.
Saudi Arabia has long invested in training foreign preachers, providing scholarships to international Muslim students to study Shariah at Saudi universities. The documents show that the kingdom gives some of them government salaries to work in their home countries. The cables named 14 new preachers to be employed in Guinea and said contracts had been signed with 12 others in Tajikistan.
Another cable said the Foreign Ministry was studying a request from an Islamic association near the Iranian border in Afghanistan to pay local preachers to spread Sunni Islam.
Some of the costliest projects were in India, which Saudi Arabia sees as a sectarian battleground.
Cables indicated that $266,000 had been granted to an Islamic association to open a nursing college; $133,000 had been used for an Islamic conference; and another grant went to a vocational training center for girls.
King Abdullah, who died in January, signed off on a $1 million gift to the Khaja Education Society, and a smaller amount went to a medical college run by Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen.
A member of the first group, Janab Moazam, confirmed that it had been granted the money and said that half had already been delivered. An official from the second group, Abdullah Koya Madani, confirmed that the group had received Saudi funding.
Even humanitarian relief is sometimes sectarian. In 2011, the Saudi foreign minister requested aid for flood victims in Thailand, noting that "it will have a positive impact on Muslims in Thailand and will restrict the Iranian government in expanding its Shiite influence."
Elsewhere, Saudi Arabia sees its religious work as a way to improve its reputation. The Saudi ambassador to Hungary requested $54,000 per year for an Islamic association as well as for authorization to found a cultural center. O ne cable said such aid would undermine extremism and "play a positive role in portraying the beautiful and moderate image of the kingdom."
Reporting was contributed by Hwaida Saad from Beirut; Karam Shoumali from Istanbul; Salman Masood from Islamabad, Pakistan; Mujib Mashal from Kabul, Afghanistan; and Suhasini Raj from New Delhi.
A version of this article appears in print on July 17, 2015, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: A Saudi Obsession With Politics and Religion. Order Reprintshttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2d8_1438435426SetsyoufreeWikiLeaks Shows a Saudi Obsession With Iran (NYT)Saudi Occupying Arabia, America, Oil Love, War Love, $$$, UK, Israel, Iran Deal, Wahabism, Racism, Hijacked Islam, Muslims, Yemen, Shia, Iran, Sunni, <span class="highlight">Cyber</span> Warfare Defense! Department of Defense gets wired!!Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:30:32 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e1c_1436214507
USMilitaryVideosIn its fourth year as U.S. Cyber Command's major exercise depicting a national response to a serious cyber incident, Cyber Guard 15 drew a record number of players representing those who would be most affected by a cyber attack.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e1c_1436214507USMilitaryVideos<span class="highlight">Cyber</span> Warfare Defense! Department of Defense gets wired!!cyber defense, cyber warfare, internet, computers, cyber warriorIslamic State (ISIS/ISIL) Producing Fake Execution. Published By <span class="highlight">Cyber</span>-BerkutSat, 11 Jul 2015 14:56:08 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e27_1436639463
gastarbeiterThe hacker group confirms,that this video was found in a mobile phone of one of senator John McCains employees.
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e27_1436639463gastarbeiterIslamic State (ISIS/ISIL) Producing Fake Execution. Published By <span class="highlight">Cyber</span>-Berkuthollywood, islamic state, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Cyber, berkut, fake, propaganda, execution mccain, usa, russia, ukraine, syria, assad, obama, putin<span class="highlight">Cyber</span> Berkut: The World needs to know!Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:50:31 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cdf_1436604434
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proof :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR5nl63rtu4http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cdf_1436604434IMPRECATION<span class="highlight">Cyber</span> Berkut: The World needs to know!cyber berkut isis Why are people still arguing MH17 when <span class="highlight">Cyber</span>-Berkut proved it as planned 11 months ago?Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:04:56 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=599_1437125294
Kopfz10.08.2014 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=599_1437125294KopfzWhy are people still arguing MH17 when <span class="highlight">Cyber</span>-Berkut proved it as planned 11 months ago?conspiracy, ukraine, kiev, kolomoisky, oliynyk, bereza, geletey, gricenko, mh17, provocation, false flagCristiano Ronaldo meeting <span class="highlight">Cyber</span> Clone in Tokyo Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:23:02 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aeb_1436476684
nomore123*Cristiano Ronaldo today came face to face with a scantily clad life-size double of himself in Tokyo where he is presently to promote an electric muscle stimulator for sculpting a washboard stomach. The near-nude cyber-clone was unveiled by Japanese scientists who created the silicon dummy with a 3-D scan of Ronaldo's body using 110 micro cameras.
The clone also has moving facial features
"It's perfect," Ronaldo smiled as he checked out the clone with fluttering eyelids and roving eyes. "I have to say he looks just like me. I would be a liar if I said it doesn't. I love it." he said.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aeb_1436476684nomore123Cristiano Ronaldo meeting <span class="highlight">Cyber</span> Clone in Tokyo Cristiano real madrid JapanUS Companies Were Hacked Today - don't let them fool you...Wed, 08 Jul 2015 14:04:50 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=51f_1436377758
gubastekJust my 2 kopeikas:
I found the official explanation of "technical glitches" by US gov't to be ludicrous at best.
Let's explore a little further - NYSE is an obvious target for hackers, for obvious reasons. What about the other 2 companies? In previous years, WSJ has been on the forefront of reporting all cyber attacks on both private companies, as well as on the US gov't. The WSJ is ( according to wiki ) "...the largest newspaper in the United States by circulation. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, it has a circulation of about 2.4 million copies (including nearly 900,000 digital subscriptions), as of March 2013, compared with USA Todayhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=51f_1436377758gubastekUS Companies Were Hacked Today - don't let them fool you...USA, hacked, cyber, attack, hack, WSJ, DJI, NYSE, United, airlines, wall street journal, dow jones industrial, new york stock exchange, obama, white house, Pakistan allegedly building digital espionage capacity to rival the USThu, 23 Jul 2015 21:08:42 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c9_1437700085
IndiaIsASuperPowerISLAMABAD: Pakistan's intelligence agency sought to tap worldwide Internet traffic via underwater cables that would have given the country a digital espionage capacity to rival the US, according to a report by Privacy International.
The report says the country's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency hired intermediary companies to acquire domestic spying toolkits from Western and Chinese firms for domestic surveillance.
It also claims the ISI sought access to tap data from three of the four "landing sites" that pass through the country's port city of Karachi, effectively giving it access to Internet traffic worldwide.
Read: Over 5,000 phones being tapped by IB, SC told
Pakistan was in talks with a European company in 2013 to acquire the technology but it is not clear whether the deal went through - a fact the rights organisation said was troubling.
"These cables are going to route data through various countries and regions," Matthew Rice, an advocacy officer for Privacy International, told AFP .
"Some will go from Europe to Africa and all the way to Southeast Asia. From my reading that's an explicit attempt to look at what's going on."
Read: Espionage charges: Court directs PAF to try detained officer per law
Traffic from North America and regional rival India would also be routed via the cables, he said.
The report, based on what it called previously unpublished confidential documents, said the data collection sought in the ISI's proposal "would rival some of the world's most powerful surveillance programmes" including those of the United States and Britain.
A spokesman for Pakistan's military said he was not able to comment on the issue at the present time.
Last month Pakistani rights campaigners and opposition lawmakers urged Islamabad to protect the privacy of its citizens after leaked top-secret documents appeared to show British intelligence had gained access to almost all the country's Internet users.
The country is also in the process of debating its own cyber-crime bill, which rights campaigners say threatens to curtail freedom of expression and privacy in its current form.
Rights groups also expressed concern over a provision that allows the government to share intelligence with foreign spy agencies, such as the American National Security Agency, and the mandating of service providers to retain telephone and email records for up to a year.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c9_1437700085IndiaIsASuperPowerPakistan allegedly building digital espionage capacity to rival the USisrael pakistanSaudi Attempts at Worldwide Salafization Detailed by WikiLeaks (Text Only)Sat, 18 Jul 2015 21:00:07 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=19b_1437263159
AliMD76WikiLeaks Shows a Saudi Obsession With Iran
A cable from the Saudi Embassy in Budapest requesting funds to open Islamic centers.
Many of those seeking funds referred to the Saudi-Iranian rivalry in their appeals, the cables showed.
A cable from the Saudi Embassy in Pakistan noting that the president of the International Islamic University of Islamabad had invited the Iranian ambassador to a cultural week on campus.
The Saudi Embassy called Mr. Ahmad, the President of the IIU in Islamabad, to express "its surprise," according to one cable and suggesting that he invite the wife of the Saudi ambassador instead.
By BEN HUBBARD and MAYY EL SHEIKH JULY 16, 2015
BEIRUT, Lebanon - For decades, Saudi Arabia has poured billions of its oil dollars into sympathetic Islamic organizations around the world, quietly practicing checkbook diplomacy to advance its agenda.
But a trove of thousands of Saudi documents recently released by WikiLeaks reveals in surprising detail how the government's goal in recent years was not just to spread its strict version of Sunni Islam - though that was a priority - but also to undermine its primary adversary: Shiite Iran .
The documents from Saudi Arabia 's Foreign Ministry illustrate a near obsession with Iran, with diplomats in Africa, Asia and Europe monitoring Iranian activities in minute detail and top government agencies plotting moves to limit the spread of Shiite Islam.
The scope of this global oil-funded operation helps explain the kingdom's alarm at the deal reached on Tuesday between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program. Saudi leaders worry that relief from sanctions will give Iran more money to strengthen its militant proxies. But the documents reveal a depth of competition that is far more comprehensive, with deep roots in the religious ideologies that underpin the two nations.
The documents indicate an extensive apparatus inside the Saudi government dedicated to missionary activity that brings in officials from the Foreign, Interior and Islamic Affairs Ministries, the intelligence service and the office of the king.
Recent initiatives have included putting foreign preachers on the Saudi payroll, building mosques, schools and study centers, and undermining foreign officials and news media deemed threatening to the kingdom's agenda.
At times, the king got involved, ordering an Iranian television station off the air or granting $1 million to an Islamic association in India.
"We are talking about thousands and thousands of activist organizations and preachers who are in the Saudi sphere of influence because they are directly or indirectly funded by them," said Usama Hasan, a senior researcher in Islamic studies at the Quilliam Foundation in London. "It has been a huge factor, and the Saudi influence is undeniable."
While the documents do not show any Saudi support for militant activity, critics argue that the kingdom's campaign against Shiites - and its promotion of a strict form of Islam - have eroded pluralism in the Muslim world and added to the tensions fueling conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere.
The Saudi government has made no secret of its international religious mission, nor of its enmity toward Iran. But it has found the leaks deeply embarrassing and has told its citizens that spreading them is a crime.
It said last month that the documents were related to an electronic attack in March on the Foreign Ministry that was claimed by the Yemeni Cyber Army, a little-known group believed to be backed by Iran. WikiLeaks mentioned the attack when it released the documents.
While Saudi Arabia says some documents were fabricated, many contain correct names and phone numbers, and a number of individuals and associations named in them verified their contents when reached by reporters from The New York Times.
The trove mostly covers the period from 2010 to early 2015. It documents religious outreach coordinated by the Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, an interministerial body that King Salman dissolved in a government overhaulafter his ascension this year.
The Foreign Ministry relayed funding requests to officials in Riyadh, the Interior Ministry and the intelligence agency sometimes vetted potential recipients, the Saudi-supported Muslim World League helped coordinate strategy, and Saudi diplomats across the globe oversaw projects. Together, these officials identified sympathetic Muslim leaders and associations abroad, distributed funds and religious literature produced in Saudi Arabia, trained preachers and gave them salaries to work in their own countries.
One example of this is Sheikh Suhaib Hasan, an Indian Islamic scholar who was educated in Saudi Arabia and worked for the kingdom for four decades in Kenya and in Britain, where he helped found theIslamic Sharia Council, according to a cable from the Saudi Embassy in London whose contents were verified by his son, Mr. Hasan of the Quilliam Foundation.
Clear in many of the diplomatic messages are Saudi fears of Iranian influence and of the spread of Shiite Islam.
The Saudi Embassy in Tehran sent daily reports on local news coverage of Saudi Arabia. One cable suggested the kingdom improve its image by starting a Persian-language television station and sending pro-Saudi preachers to tour Iran.
Other cables detailed worries that Iran sought to turn Tajikistan into "a center to export its religious revolution and to spread its ideology in the region's countries." The Saudi ambassador in Tajikistan suggested that Tajik officials could restrict Iranian support "if other sources of financial support become available, especially from the kingdom."
The fear of Shiite influence extended to countries where Muslims are small minorities, like China, where a Saudi delegation was charged with "suggesting practical programs that can be carried out to confront Shiite expansion in China." And documents from the Philippines, where only 5 percent of the population is Muslim, included suggested steps to "restrict the Iranian presence."
In 2012, Saudi ambassadors from across Africa were told to file reports on Iranian activities in their countries. The Saudi ambassador to Uganda soon filed a detailed report on "Shiite expansion" in the mostly Christian country.
A cable from the predominantly Muslim nation of Mali warned that Iran was appealing to the local Muslims, who knew little of "the truth of the extremist, racist Shiite ideology that goes against all other Islamic schools."
Many of those seeking funds referred to the Saudi-Iranian rivalry in their appeals, the cables showed.
One proposal from the Afghan Foundation in Afghanistan said that it needed funding because such projects "do not receive support from any entities, while others, especially Shiites, get a lot of aid from several places, including Iran."
Reached in Kabul, the Afghan capital, one of the center's founders, Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil (the last Foreign Minister of the Taliban-governed Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan), acknowledged that the group had appealed for Saudi funding but said that it had received none.
The kingdom has at times interfered directly with Iran's outreach. From 2010 to 2013, it tried to force an Iranian Arabic-language satellite television station, Al Alam, off the air. These efforts included issuing royal decrees aimed at stopping the broadcast, pressuring the Riyadh-based satellite provider Arabsat to drop the channel, and using "technical means" to weaken the channel's signal so it did not reach Bahrain and eastern Saudi Arabia, where Shiites complain of discrimination by their Sunni monarchs.
A Beirut-based manager of Al Alam acknowledged that the channel had faced Saudi pressure since 2010, which had succeeded in getting two Arab satellite providers to drop the channel.
"We are broadcasting normally" via European satellites, the manager said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private company matters. "The only disruption we have is when we broadcast a show about Bahrain."
Some of the cables reported on seemingly mundane events.
The Saudi Embassy in Sri Lanka reported a meeting between the Iranian ambassador and a group of religious scholars, noting that it began at 7:30 p.m.
Elsewhere, the kingdom intervened against foreign officials it perceived as threats.
After the president of the International Islamic University of Islamabad in Pakistan, Mumtaz Ahmad, invited the Iranian ambassador to a cultural week on campus, the Saudi Embassy called Mr. Ahmad to express "its surprise," according to one cable, suggesting that he invite the wife of the Saudi ambassador instead.
Mr. Ahmad refused to disinvite the Iranian ambassador, so Saudi diplomats suggested having Suliman Aba al-Khail, a Saudi academic with a position in the university's administration, convene a board meeting and "choose a president for the university who is consistent with our orientation," the cable said.
A faculty member at the university said that Mr. Ahmad, a political science professor with a doctorate from the University of Chicago, had clashed with conservative faculty members for trying to reduce Saudi influence on campus.
After Mr. Ahmad resigned as president in 2012, the Saudi ambassador worked with the president of Pakistan at the time, Asif Ali Zardari, to have a Saudi citizen named as university president, according to the faculty member.
"In the end they won," said the faculty member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to anger his employer.
Saudi Arabia has long invested in training foreign preachers, providing scholarships to international Muslim students to study Shariah at Saudi universities. The documents show that the kingdom gives some of them government salaries to work in their home countries. The cables named 14 new preachers to be employed in Guinea and said contracts had been signed with 12 others in Tajikistan.
Another cable said the Foreign Ministry was studying a request from an Islamic association near the Iranian border in Afghanistan to pay local preachers to spread Sunni Islam.
Some of the costliest projects were in India, which Saudi Arabia sees as a sectarian battleground.
Cables indicated that $266,000 had been granted to an Islamic association to open a nursing college; $133,000 had been used for an Islamic conference; and another grant went to a vocational training center for girls.
King Abdullah, who died in January, signed off on a $1 million gift to the Khaja Education Society, and a smaller amount went to a medical college run by Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen.
A member of the first group, Janab Moazam, confirmed that it had been granted the money and said that half had already been delivered. An official from the second group, Abdullah Koya Madani, confirmed that the group had received Saudi funding.
Even humanitarian relief is sometimes sectarian. In 2011, the Saudi foreign minister requested aid for flood victims in Thailand, noting that "it will have a positive impact on Muslims in Thailand and will restrict the Iranian government in expanding its Shiite influence."
Elsewhere, Saudi Arabia sees its religious work as a way to improve its reputation. The Saudi ambassador to Hungary requested $54,000 per year for an Islamic association as well as for authorization to found a cultural center. O ne cable said such aid would undermine extremism and "play a positive role in portraying the beautiful and moderate image of the kingdom."
Reporting was contributed by Hwaida Saad from Beirut; Karam Shoumali from Istanbul; Salman Masood from Islamabad, Pakistan; Mujib Mashal from Kabul, Afghanistan; and Suhasini Raj from New Delhi.http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=19b_1437263159AliMD76Saudi Attempts at Worldwide Salafization Detailed by WikiLeaks (Text Only)Wikileaks Diplomatic Cables Confirm Saudi Salafization SpreeUkraine: The Unseen Attacks - full documentarySat, 18 Jul 2015 11:51:09 -0400http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=983_1437234466
Timmers1974Published on Jul 17, 2015
Fighting in the east has come to characterize Ukraine. But Ukraine's struggle for survival and self-determination, free of corrupt governments and Russian influence is fought on many other fronts. From cyber defence to internal defence, fixing its forces to telling the truth - Ukraine faces challenges that may determine its very survival.
In this documentary, NATO experts, Ukrainian politicians and journalists talk about the distinct challenges of terrorism, cyber defence, reforming the armed forces and fighting the information war.
This is the full version of the documentary. You can find the separate videos here:
Ukraine: The Unseen Attacks - Terrorist Attack https://youtu.be/Of-B3iBcogc
Ukraine: The Unseen Attacks - Cyber Attack https://youtu.be/PCVYp5bebuQ
Ukraine: The Unseen Attacks - Information War https://youtu.be/kiZIWA8IPQY
Ukraine: The Unseen Attacks - Ukraine's Armed Forces https://youtu.be/OMp1AKXhXSs
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CCCCCCyberBerkut
Dear Senator McCain! We recommend you next time in foreign travel, and especially on the territory of Ukraine, not to take confidential documents.
On one of the devices of your colleagues, we found a lot of interesting things. Something we decided to put: this video should become the property of the international community!
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